^6S ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



lowed to add feme few remarks upon the 

 whole. 



From the figure o^ the womb I dif" 

 fedled, compared with thofe of Cowper, 

 Nortwyk, Albinus, Hunter, and others, 

 it appears, that the fundus of the im- 

 pregnaced womb is always greatly ex- 

 tended upwards, in the time of gravida- 

 tion, by which the round ligaments and 

 Fallopian tubes, which are inferted into 

 the angles of the unimpregnated womb, 

 are then much lower than the fundus : 

 For, in my figure, thefe ligaments and 

 tubes are almoft one third of the length 

 of the womb lower than its top: And 

 Vefalius *, Nortwyk f and others, have 

 obferved, that, the further advanced the 

 woman is in her pregnancy, the lower 

 they defcend. 



Th e uterus, by impregnation, may be. 

 forced into different lliapes. My figure 

 and that pf Bidloo, which refemble each 

 other greatly, fhew, that one fide of th,e 

 womb may be raifed much higher than 



thy 



* lib. 5. cap. 17. 



I Hift, Uteri, pars 3. § 77. p. 7». 



